In granting a six-vehicle national licence to father and son Edward Constantine Coakley and Edward Neil Coakley, after revoking the six-vehicle national licence held by the family’s firm, Mackenzie Bus, Traffic Commissioner (TC) Joan Aitken has banned the partnership from registering any local services for a year.
The implementation of the revocation of the company’s licence was delayed for two months solely to allow for alternative arrangements to be made for passengers who used the company’s registered local services.
The firm, whose sole Director was Clare Coakley, and the partners had been called before the TC at an Edinburgh Public Inquiry.
In 2017 the five-vehicle licence held by Mackenzie Bus No. 2 was revoked by the TC and an application by Coakley Brothers (Scotland), trading as ARC Travel, was refused by the TC both on financial grounds [routeone/Court Report/9 August 2017].
The TC revoked the licence held by Mackenzie Bus on grounds of lack of financial standing and material change.
In granting the partnership licence the TC made it subject to the condition preventing the partnership from registering local services for at least one year because of the level of timetable non-compliance in relation to the local services operated by Mackenzie Bus licence and Edward Constantine Coakley’s involvement in the management of the services.
